Unfinished Tales - J. R. R. Tolkien [259]
Brego Second King of Rohan, son of Eorl the Young.
Bregolas Brother of Barahir and father of Baragund and Belegund.
Bregor Father of Barahir and Bregolas.
The Bow of Bregor , preserved in Númenor.
Brethil Forest between the rivers Teiglin and Sirion in Beleriand, dwelling-place of the People of Haleth. Men of, People of, Brethil; and see Woodmen. Black Thorn of Brethil, see Gurthang.
Brithiach Ford over Sirion north of the Forest of Brethil.
Brithombar The northernmost of the Havens of the Falas on the coast of Beleriand.
Brithon River flowing into the Great Sea at Brithombar.
Brodda Easterling in Hithlum after the Nirnaeth Arnoediad who took as wife Aerin, kinswoman of Húrin; slain by Túrin. Called the Incomer.
Brown Lands The desolate region between Mirkwood and the Emyn Muil.
Bruinen River in Eriador, tributary (with the Mitheithel) of the Gwathló; translated Loudwater. Ford of Bruinen, below Rivendell.
Bucklebury Ferry Ferry across the Brandywine River between Bucklebury and the Marish.
Bywater Village in the Shire a few miles south-east of Hobbiton.
Cabed-en-Aras Deep gorge in the river Teiglin, where Túrin slew Glaurung and where Nienor leaped to her death. Translated the Deer’s Leap. See Cabed Naeramarth.
Cabed Naeramarth ‘Leap of Dreadful Doom’, name given to Cabed-en-Aras after Nienor leaped from its cliffs.
Cair Andros Island in the river Anduin north of Minas Tirith fortified by Gondor for the defence of Anórien.
Calenardhon ‘The Green Province’, name of Rohan when it was the northern part of Gondor.
Gap of Calenardhon ; King of Calenardhon, Eorl. See Rohan, Gap of Rohan.
Calenhad Sixth of the beacons of Gondor in Ered Nimrais. (The name probably meant ‘green space’, with reference to the flat turf-covered crown of the hill: had being derived, with the usual mutation in combinations, from sad ‘place, spot’.)
Calimehtar Thirtieth King of Gondor, victor over the Wainriders on the Dagorlad in Third Age 1899.
*Calmindon The ‘Light-tower’ on Tol Uinen in the Bay of Rómenna.
Camlost See Beren (I).
Caradhras, Pass of The pass over the Misty Mountains called ‘Redhorn Gate’, beneath Caradhras (Redhorn, Barazinbar), one of the Mountains of Moria.
Caras Galadhon ‘City of the Trees’ (for the word caras see 333), chief dwelling of the Elves of Lórien.
Cardolan One of the three kingdoms into which Arnor was divided in the ninth century of the Third Age; bounded in the west by the Baranduin and in the north by the East Road.
Carn Dûm Chief fortress of Angmar.
Carnen ‘Redwater’, river flowing down from the Iron Hills to join the River Running.
Carrock, The A rocky islet in the upper Anduin. See Ford of Carrock.
Celduin River flowing from the Lonely Mountain to the Sea of Rhûn. Translated River Running.
Celeborn (1) ‘Tree of Silver’, the Tree of Tol Eressëa.
Celeborn (2) Kinsman of Thingol; wedded Galadriel; Lord of Lothlórien. (For the meaning of the name see 346 – 7.) See Teleporno.
Celebrant River rising in Mirrormere and flowing through Lothlórien to join Anduin. Translated Silverlode. See Field of Celebrant.
Celebrían Daughter of Celeborn and Galadriel, wedded to Elrond.
Celebrimbor ‘Hand of Silver’, greatest of the smiths of Eregion, maker of the Three Rings of the Elves; slain by Sauron.
Celebros ‘Silver Foam’ or ‘Silver Rain’, a stream in Brethil falling down to Teiglin near the Crossings.
Celegorm The third son of Fëanor.
Celon River in East Beleriand, rising in the Hill of Himring.
Celos One of the rivers of Lebennin in Gondor; tributary of the Sirith. (‘The name must be derived from the root kelu- “flow out swiftly”, formed with an ending -sse, -ssa, seen in Quenya kelussë “freshet, water falling out swiftly from a rocky spring”.’)
Ceorl Rider of Rohan who brought news of the Second Battle of the Fords of Isen.
Cerin Amroth ‘Amroth’s Mound’ in Lórien.
Cermië Quenya name of the seventh month according to the Númenórean calendar, corresponding to July.
Children of Aulë The Dwarves.
Children of Earth Elves and Men.
Children of Ilúvatar Elves and Men.